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The Snakes That Ate Florida
In the Everglades, everything still looks the same. The waving saw grass, the cypress and pine trees draped with air plants, the high, white clouds parked like dirigibles above their shadows—if you’ve been to the Everglades before, and you go back, you’ll still find these. But now there is also a weird quiet. In the campsites of Everglades National Park, raccoons don’t rattle the trash can lids at four in the morning.
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About 20 years ago,keeping large,non native snakes was almost outlawed. I actually signed a petition to do so since they would be an environmental diaster. Add to that snake keepers who live feed whatever they can find like free kittens/puppies to good home,etc. .Of course the snake breeders raised such a ruckus,nothing happened..When said snakes get too big to control,they are released into the wilds of America..Snake breeders 1,wildlife 0.
Too bad people's minds were clouded with the thoughts of $$$ rather than thinking of what could go wrong,with AU being the poster child of what can go wrong with the cain toad.